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Roadside Picnic is set in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event called the Visitation that …
The other day, we’re standing in the repository; it’s evening already, nothing left to do but dump the lab suits, then I can head down to the Borscht for my daily dose of booze.
— Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky, Борис Натанович Стругацкий, Arkady Strugatsky, and 1 other
The trick is remembering that it’s all a game.
— Atlas Alone by Emma Newman
He didn't like beating people.
"Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a standalone dark tale …
I am not on this beach.
— Before Mars by Emma Newman (Planetfall, #3)
"Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a …
It's times like these, when I’m hunkered in a doorway, waiting for a food market of dubious legality to be set up, that I find myself wishing I could eat like everyone else.
— After atlas by Emma Newman (A Planetfall novel)
One secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…
Renata Ghali believed in …
Every time I come down here I think about my mother.
— Planetfall by Emma Newman
Security expert Dora left her anarchist commune over safety concerns. But when her ex-girlfriend Kay …
I hadn’t seen Juan in years, not since I left the commune.
— These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the …
Light. The light of that murdered sun still burns me.
— Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio (The Sun Eater, #1)
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …
They call me Mr. Scales because I’m a snake.
— Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
‘My mother used to say I was born reaching, which is true. She also used …
When the multiverse was confirmed, the spiritual and scientific communities both counted it as evidence of their validity.
Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, …
Loret had spent the voyage braced for pirates.
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
It is a vision of hell.
— House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican …
An engorged, yellow moon painted the sky a sickly amber hue, illuminating a solitary figure.
In the course of a single life, a man can be many things: a beloved child in a brightly embroidered gown, a street tough with a band of knifemen walking at his side, lover to a beautiful girl, husband to an honest woman, father to a child, grain sweeper in a brewery, widower, musician, and mendicant coughing his lungs up outside the city walls.
I checked twice during the prologue that I hadn't opened the wrong book by accident.
Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and …
Carl was twelve years old the first time he laid eyes on the Grand Abeona Hotel.
